Trot in English dictionary

  • trot

    Meanings and definitions of "Trot"

    • A gait of horses between walk and canter, a diagonal gait, i.e., in which diagonal pairs of legs move together.
    • A gait of a person faster than a walk.
    • A toddler.
    • (informal) The trots: diarrhoea/diarrhea.
    • (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
    • A moderately common abbreviation, a mildly negative epithet for Trotskyist.
    • (archaic) An ugly old woman.
    • (Australian, New Zealand) A run of luck or fortune.
    • To walk rapidly.
    • (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
    • noun
      (archaic, pejorative)
      An ugly old woman, a hag.“Trot”, entry in 2008, Anatolij Simonovič Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, page 208. [From 1362.]
    • noun
      (chiefly of horses)
      A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
    • noun
      A gait of a person faster than a walk.
    • noun
      A toddler. [From 1854.]
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A young animal. [From 1895.]
    • noun
      (dance)
      A moderately rapid dance.
    • noun
      (mildly disparaging)
      Short for [i]Trotskyist[/i].
    • noun
      (Australia, obsolete)
      A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
    • noun
      (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad")
      A run of luck or fortune.
    • noun
      (dated, slang, among students)
      Synonym of [i]horse[/i] ( illegitimate study aid)
    • verb
      To walk rapidly.
    • verb
      (intransitive, of a horse)
      To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
    • a gait of horses
    • to walk rapidly
    • (horse movement)
    • trot (horse gait)
    • noun
      a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
    • noun
      a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
    • noun
      a slow pace of running
    • verb
      cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
    • verb
      ride at a trot
    • verb
      run at a moderately swift pace

    Synonyms of "Trot" in English dictionary

    version, translation, Trotskyite are the top synonyms of "Trot" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Trot

    • lp  liczba pojedyncza trot; lm  liczba mnoga trots blp  bez liczby pojedynczej trot, trotted, trotting, trots
    • trot ( third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
    • trot ( plural  trots)
    • trot (plural trots)
    • trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
  • Trot

    Meanings and definitions of "Trot"

    • noun
      (slang)
      Trotskyist
    • noun
      radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

    Synonyms of "Trot" in English dictionary

    Trotskyite, Trotskyist are the top synonyms of "Trot" in the English thesaurus.

    • Trotskyite · Trotskyist

      radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

    Grammar and declension of Trot

    • Trot (plural Trots)

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